“The Conservatives would have got 116 seats, Liberals 81, NDP 57, Block Qu 30, and Other 24 seats. This based on the number of seats and the percentage of votes.”

Or as another astute letter writer to the Globe and Mail pointed out:

“So for ever two Tory voters there was a NDP voter. In a room of 10 people 4 would be Tories, 3 Liberals, 2 NDPers and 1 Bloc supporter. In fact in that room the Tories would be a minority.What the neaderthals are proving is that they don’t think that 2.5 million Canadians should have representation in parliament. Harper couldn’t close the deal. The Liberals were weak going into the election, proposing a radically new tax system in the middle of the financial crisis. Harper agreed to withdraw from Afghanistan, he has had to put his ‘National Citizen Coalition’ agenda on the backburner, he took abortion off the table. When he tried to introduce wedge issues into the election, he lost Quebec. In other words he tried to be as Liberal as he could be and he still couldn’t get to a majority. That’s usually considered a failure. Moreover, I will add that the turnout was the most dismal in an election ever. Part of that is no doubt due to the new identification requirements which will hurt most of all student voters. Many students had to bring with them proof of residence and a photo id. Clearly that hurt the NDP more than anyone else. One report I read this morning is that at Dalhousie MOST of the student voters were not allowed to vote because of the requirements. Disgraceful.”

That’s why most of us watched the ‘Merkin’ VP Debate instead of our own. Your Political Soap Opera/Mini Series is now going on 3 years and is a hotbed of Iniquity, Romance, and Intrigue.

The real problem for both of our countries is that we are handcuffed with this archaic first-past-the-post system…
the Election is over before I even get to vote and I live in WhatEVERpeg, Manitoba, which is right next to Ontario, Upper Canada!

That is no way to run a modern Democracy and everyone knows it.

Upper Canada is losing it’s grip on the ROC (rest of Canada) so we may all be looking at alternative accomodations in the very near future. Westerners have had enough of the hind teat and may actually walk out and leave Upper and Lower Canada to chew on the carcass.

You know what really troubles me? If we are forced to become part of ‘Mannisota’ or ‘North Datoba’ then we have to start fixing the Merkin Political system which is (without hyperbole) a MILLION times more f&^#%@ up than our system.